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West storage range 2 section 1
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West storage range 2 section 1
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Scope and content: A photographic collection of 2133 images, spanning the dates ca. 1960-ca. 1988, donated by the Johnson Johnson Crabtree architectural firm, of Nashville, Tennessee, documenting four decades of the architectural project work of Bruce I. Crabtree, Jr., F.A.I.A., a senior founding partner in the firm. The collection is comprised of photographic images of design projects of the architectural firm, Taylor & Crabtree, comprised of photographic...
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Image reproduction
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Image reproduction
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Scope and content: Collection contains 6,302 slides taken by architect Charles W. Warterfield, Jr. over the course of his adult life, and span the period from about 1957 to 1998. The primary focus of this collection is various styles of architecture in Tennessee, especially in Nashville. These include: pioneer log cabins and houses, vernacular architecture, Greek Revival mansions, Victorian residences and commercial buildings. Warterfield documented...
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Workroom range 4 section 2
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Workroom range 4 section 2
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Scope and content: These files document those Middle Tennessee projects in design, construction, and environmental sensitivity nominated for Excellence In Development Awards, primarily in 2003 and 2004. Files contain project names, locations, types of development, project summaries, and several colorful graphic representations, interior and exterior, of the structures. Notable nominated projects include Blair School of Music, Green Hills Family...
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Flat file room Hibbs drawers 1-20
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Flat file room Hibbs drawers 1-20
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Map room shelves 14-15
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Map room shelves 14-15
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Workroom range 4 section 1
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Workroom range 4 section 1
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Scope and content: The Henry C. Hibbs Papers include approximately 75 cubic feet of materials that document his life and career as a leading architect in Nashville and the South. The collection dates from 1882 to ca. 1988 and contains a variety of materials on the history of Nashville during the first half of the twentieth century. Photographs of Nashville buildings like the American National Bank, the American Trust building, the City Market House,...
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West storage range 3 section 2
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West storage range 3 section 2
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Abstract: The collection includes city directory and deed research, and photographs, comprising historical and architectural inventories of extant (c.1980) downtown Nashville buildings. A few photographs of structures in the Rutledge Hill area are also included in a separate series.
Scope and content: Series I. Downtown Survey. Documents and photographs composing a detailed architectural and historical survey of downtown Nashville buildings, c.1980....
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SCC oral histories
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SCC oral histories
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Workroom range 3 section 8: document
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Workroom range 3 section 8: document
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Scope and content: Fifteen interviews in various formats conducted mostly in 1977 and 1978 with individuals who were owners, or were the family of former owners of historic homes in Nashville, most of which had been in the same family for several generations. Several of the homes were constructed prior to 1800 during the early settlement period of Middle Tennessee. A few are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to their...
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SCC oral histories
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SCC oral histories
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Workroom range 3 section 8: document
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Workroom range 3 section 8: document
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Scope and content: Three audio recordings created in 1986 by Historic Nashville, Inc. in which the speakers describe and discuss homes, schools, churches, and various historical minutiae in the following neighborhoods: Lockeland Springs (William Henry Oliver); Belmont-Hillsboro (Eugene TeSelle) and Edgefield. Particularly of note are the subjects of segregation and desegregation in schooling and housing, discussed at length in both the Oliver and...
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West storage range 3 section 2
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West storage range 3 section 2
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Abstract: Records of the Sacred Sites Survey Project of Historic Nashville, Inc., conducted between 1999 and 2003, encompassing a survey of houses of worship in Davidson County, Tenn. over fifty years old as of 2000.
Scope and content: The bulk of the collection is comprised of the church survey forms and photographs of the churches. The collection also includes administrative papers which provide information about the creation and implementation...
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Map room drawer K-4 folder 3
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Map room drawer K-4 folder 3
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Workroom range 3 section 6
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Workroom range 3 section 6
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Scope and content: A typescript book of annotated U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute quadrangle maps, cut into quarters, showing locations of pre-1875 homes and other historic sites in the vicinity of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn., with commentary and source citations, compiled in 1973 by Laurence Trabue. His book includes a site index by name of house, owner, or property. Trabue's findings were based on research, personal knowledge, and visits...
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Workroom range 3 section 6
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Workroom range 3 section 6
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Scope and content: A small quantity of documents dating ca. 1939-1978 relating to the McKissack & McKissack architectural firm of Nashville, Tenn. Materials include two histories of the organization written prior to 1950; the firm's application for National Defense Construction Projects with the Federal government during World War II, including highlighting its work at the Tuskegee Army Airfield where the 99th Pursuit Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen) would...
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Workroom range 3 section 4
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Workroom range 3 section 4
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Scope and content: Cards describing various real estate properties for sale in Middle Tennessee, 1968-1971, created as a multiple listing service by the Nashville Board of Realtors. Although all types of property are included, most cards are for residential property. Geographic area covered by this collection includes Nashville and Davidson County, as well as urban and rural properties located in Cheatham, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson,...
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Map room
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Map room
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Scope and content: Architectural drawings created in the 1920s and early 1930s by Russell Eason Hart and others for the reconstruction of Nashville's Parthenon replica in Centennial Park. Drawings are for all aspects of the reconstruction, including interiors, exteriors, plans, elevations, sections, details, ornament, schematics, structural and foundation plans, and electrical and ventilation systems. Drawings include some very detailed images of...
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Flat file room drawer FF-3
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Flat file room drawer FF-3
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West workroom range 4 sect. 1 and 2
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West workroom range 4 sect. 1 and 2
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Scope and Content: Architectural and personal papers of Robinson Neil Bass, consisting primarily of architectural plans and renderings, news clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and related materials documenting numerous commercial, residential, and government buildings designed by Bass through the latter half of the twentieth century. The collection is organized in to two series: I. Building Projects; and II. Personal Papers.
Series I. Building Projects...
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SCC oral histories
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SCC oral histories
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Workroom range 3 section 8
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Workroom range 3 section 8
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Abstract: Over 100 audio-recorded interviews of individuals recalling their experiences at Union Station as travelers, railroad or station employees, relatives of employees, or in other capacities. Recollections span the time frame from the construction and dedication of the station in the late 1890s to the time of the interviews in the mid-1970s. Further details about topics discussed and interview participants may be found in the collection finding...
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Workroom range 5 section 6
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Workroom range 5 section 6
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Scope and content: A mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum circa 1857. Subjects are finely detailed drawings of various buildings in Nashville, Tenn., including a number of structures that were destroyed by fire in 1856-1857. Buildings include churches, banks, schools, public buildings, storefronts, and others. Two maps are of Nashville in 1804 "from...